You might have missed something. THat's not possible without enabling "unofficial......".

He's using -xcl option which is using the hole that AMD left open to unlock Catalyst limits, aka Baggz's Racerx. So yea, you can overclock w/o unofficial and doing this you can enable ULPS.

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/XCL eXtends Clock Limits for official AMD overclocking APIs. Which means that it also extends clock limits for CCC or any other other vendor specific tool using official overclocking interfaces provided by AMD. Considering that it is using official AMD overclocking interface, it is compatible with ULPS. This method is equal to flashing new VGA BIOS with extended Overdrive clock limits.
However, this method uses hidded VGA BIOS emulation debug feature of Catalyst driver. Once AMD decide to remove it from driver, it will stop working. It is also necessary to re-extend clock limit after driver re-installation because VGA bios emulator resides in Catalyst registry entries.

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Originally Posted by wirefox

what ... why are you sending them back ? ? ?

They are gone already. Amazon took two years to ship them out and Visiontek only gives 30 days to register. Thus I had issues registering with Visiontek. I consulted with Amazon and they said to return them. I'm happy cuz the two xfx be's and one sapphire I got do 1300+ on the core lol.

Vague review is rather vague. OC'd it to 1265 core but mem is stuck at 1505, lol wut? No fluke to test the 88% more current? Why bother mentioning it? Did they throw more volts on the card? No mention.

Vague review is rather vague. OC'd it to 1265 core but mem is stuck at 1505, lol wut? No fluke to test the 88% more current? Why bother mentioning it? Did they throw more volts on the card? No mention.

That's true, but it still seems to be a nice card so far. And there is that 1800 core screenshot I posted

I'm not crazy enough to deny that its one badarse card. I just wish these pansy reviewers would get their hands dirty on a card like this.

True enough. I'm still getting two of them Who wants a brand new 7970 DCII for cheap(ish)? As an added bonus, we've made sure the VRMs hit 95C under load, so you don't have to decide whether you'll overclock or not!

More seriously, I'm going to lose money on this :/ But I'd rather be out a few hundred than have a card with such insane VRM temps. The main problem for me is that if I sell it internationally I have to lower the price substantially because of the jacked up prices here.

True enough. I'm still getting two of them Who wants a brand new 7970 DCII for cheap(ish)? As an added bonus, we've made sure the VRMs hit 95C under load, so you don't have to decide whether you'll overclock or not!
More seriously, I'm going to lose money on this :/ But I'd rather be out a few hundred than have a card with such insane VRM temps. The main problem for me is that if I sell it internationally I have to lower the price substantially because of the jacked up prices here.

Have you owned past versions of Lightning? Single 6970 gave me so many trouble with using it... Regardless how much voltage i've sent to core or which driver i've been using.
I've selled it right away to some poor soul.
Singled card was far from stable with OCZ 1000W PSU, which droved perfectly 560tis' SLI at, even 8h long, Skyrim Runs(average load about 80%, all eyecandy mods, oclussions High), which is also perfectly feeding current 7970.

Guys, anyone here play World of Tanks and have problems with HD 7950 or HD 7970, sometimes i can play for long time without problems, but sometimes i get dirver crash within minutes, also game glitches all over the place, even on stock clocks, i tryed Metro 2033 and 12 loops of crysis warhead (8XAA) and it passed ok. Is this driver problem or game or something else.
Cheers